Re: return first element in list with certain property

[Emanuel Berg]

James K. Lowden wrote:

> I would guess in elisp the typical list is on
> the order of a dozen elements. As Rob Pike
> says,"Fancy algorithms are slow for small N,
> and N is almost always small."

But here it is not a matter of fancy algorithms
to do it in N. Actually the one implemented to
do it in 2N seems "fancier" to me, if that is
the word.

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